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Marc Downie & Paul Kaiser

digital book

Creative Collaboration

A short manual with rules of thumb for creative collaboration. Free download to ipad — or view as pdf.

paul kaiser: writings short and long

Among Others

Devil's advocate

Variant and dissenting views of John Cage and his legacy in a composition of unusual structure divided into sixteen parts.

Russian recoveries

Travels, the cult and false future of futurism, poets' house-museums, second-hand Shklovsky, Khlebnikov's numbers, Paul Schmidt...

Flesh made word

Husky Kaiser, the vehemence of typewriting, unions & labor law, cutting, social aging, mortal agony & last soliloquy.

Abduction

Gray Bucharest under Ceausescu, diagramming stupidity, soap opera, Poe's tracking of thoughts, the essential fallacy of Freud's logic.

Sentence diagrams +

Sentence diagrams, morals, Cape Town, Navajo, notated speech, predictive text & poems, list patterns, cuts, perches of thought.

Introspections

Escaping the averages, limits & the limitless, at the fingertip, reading in the dark, eyes in & out, telescoped body, to count steps & breath.

On Paul Valery

Other people make books. I am making my mind. Valery's daily notebook, mind mirror, the general not the personal case, a caveat.

Strange mindfellows

Mindfellows in Valery & Dick, mother to fetus as writer to reader, talking lion, bat, woman, voicing across tongues, pivot names, password: me.

Drawing the truth

How Loops draws differently from Leonardo, mistaken manuals of style (Tufte), over-simple conspiracy diagrams (Lombardi).

Optics + illusion

Stereovision, homing pigeons, ticker-tape, cave, camera obscura, eye exam, orgones, voyeur, Flicker-track, epileptic, blind space, Verge.

Life and after

Immortality through early death, obit photo selection, your life is not an artwork, suicide & survivor's guilt, the girl in the cafeteria (Kerouac).

Mostly Europe

Hitler's culture capital, slave labor, Ruhr, situated reading, cultivation, quicksand, Robaix graffiti, lingua franca, French courtly vehemence.

Yes and or no

To applaud patriotism?, of two or more minds, mental gerrymandering (Minsky), Duchamp & one-liner artworks, blame leader for followers?

Mislocation

Midway, near-misses/direct hits in Pacific, architects' no-places, construction site, spire, drug court, untrue walls, King & Luria memorials.

marc downie texts

Downie doctoral thesis

Choreographing the Extended Agent: performance graphics for dance theater, 2005.

Code wants to be code

Code wants to be code (and academic openness), 5.08.

Performance as distribution

What if performance were distribution?, 2.08.

Photoshop as code

Using Photoshop is writing code, 10.07.

older essays

Steps

Essay for Ghostcatching catalogue. Also reviews prior works with learning-disabled children, Robert Wilson, & Merce Cunningham. 1999.

Pedestrian Passages

Vantage points on Pedestrian by Kaiser and Eshkar in Future Cinema, edited by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel (ZKM), MIT Press, 2003.

On Creative Collaboration

Chapter in Managing as Designing, edited by Boland and Collopy, Stanford University Press, 2004.

Motion-mapping

Reflections on childhood games, Ghostcatching, BIPED, Loops.
Chapter in Mapping in the Age of Digital Media, 2003.

Frequently pondered questions

On dance and digital dance.
Chapter in Envisioning Dance on Film and Video, 2002.

P. Mutt Protest

Artist's statement protesting sponsorship of Whitney show by Phillip Morris (big tobacco), 2000.

Flicker-stories

On If by chance, Bruner/Michotte, experimental flicker films, epilepsy.

On BIPED

Short account of BIPED.
Chapter in La Scena Digitale, an Italian anthology on technology and art, 1999.

Crayon or computer?

A critique of software for children, and a suggested solution.
Essay in FYI, Vol. 10, No. 3, Fall 1994.

older conversations

Dance Geometry

Conversation with choreographer William Forsythe, recorded in 1998 and later published in _Performance Research_, v4#2, Summer 1999.

Amraut and Girard

Conversation with software developers and digital artists Susan Amkraut and Michael Girard. Recorded 1998.

Playground

Continues Kaiser talk with Amkraut & Girard. Speculates about emergent behavior in an autonomous artwork like that of children in a playground.